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  <recipe>
    <head>
      <title>1989 1st Place Melt Aways</title>
      <categories>
        <cat>Cookies</cat>
        <cat>Holiday</cat></categories>
      <yield>30</yield></head>
    <ingredients>
      <ing>
        <amt>
          <qty>1</qty>
          <unit>cup</unit></amt>
        <item>Unsalted softened butter</item></ing>
      <ing>
        <amt>
          <qty>1/2</qty>
          <unit>cups</unit></amt>
        <item>Sifted confectioners' sugar</item></ing>
      <ing>
        <amt>
          <qty>1</qty>
          <unit>teaspoon</unit></amt>
        <item>Vanilla</item></ing>
      <ing>
        <amt>
          <qty>2 1/4</qty>
          <unit>cups</unit></amt>
        <item>Sifted cake flour</item></ing>
      <ing>
        <amt>
          <qty>1/4</qty>
          <unit>teaspoons</unit></amt>
        <item>Salt</item></ing>
      <ing>
        <amt>
          <qty>3/4</qty>
          <unit>cups</unit></amt>
        <item>Chopped pecans</item></ing>
      <ing>
        <amt>
          <qty/>
          <unit/></amt>
        <item>Confectioners' sugar</item></ing></ingredients>
    <directions>
      <step>  Preparation time: 20 minutes Baking time: 7 minutes per batch
  
   1. Heat oven to 450 degrees. Combine butter, confectioners' sugar and
  vanilla in mixing bowl.
  
   2. Sift flour and salt together and gradually stir into butter mixture.
  Stir in chopped pecans.
  
   3. Drop by heaping teaspoonsful onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until
  peaks are very light brown, about 7 minutes. Transfer to cooling rack.
  While still warm (but not hot), use a sifter to sprinkle generously with
  confectioners' sugar.
  
   This 1989 first-place recipe comes from Chris Merrill of Elk Grove
  Village. The cookies are slightly sweet and very buttery, so they melt in
  your mouth. from the Chicago Tribune second annual Food Guide Holiday
  Cookie Contest December 14, 1989
  Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #340
  
  From: Linda Place &lt;placel@worldnet.att.net&gt;
  
  Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 01:07:01 +0000
 
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